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Sensei Officers Featured in Attorney at Work

April 4, 2017

Sensei’s Sharon Nelson and John Simek were recently featured in “Tips and Takeaways from ABA TECHSHOW 2017” by Joan Feldman with Attorney at Work.
Excerpt: Last week, we shared highlights of ABA TECHSHOW’s exposition hall, with a big list of what’s new in legal technology. Today, top practice management technology pros (including faculty and former ABA TECHSHOW chairs) share their personal favorite tips, takeaways and apps from the programs and presentations.
 
Sharon Nelson and John Simek: Security at Home and Abraod
Safety first before traveling abroad. One of our favorite tips came from faculty member Ivan Hemmans, Senior Manager of Technical Development at O’Melveny & Myers LLP. To keep data safe when lawyers go abroad, his firm sends them with burner phones, no data on their devices, a freshly installed operating system and applications, their own hotspot, and a carefully configured VPN. Once they return, their devices are wiped and — voila — the firm again has clean devices to give to the next traveling lawyer. There are entirely too many incidents in which people are compelled to give their device credentials to officials at the border (even when they return to the U.S.). And devices in your hotel room are subject to being tampered with as well. Safety first!
 
Before you click on the dark web. Another tip was from faculty member Roy Zur, CEO of Cybint, who gave a marvelous talk about the “dark web,” which constitutes 96 percent of the web, where sites are not indexed by conventional search engines. There are drug dealers, human traffickers, child pornographers, gun sales, etc. There are also privacy advocates, journalists and people who live in countries where free speech is restricted. Probably a place the average lawyer should stay away from. But if you go, go with someone knowledgeable from the IT department who understands the Tor network and can take you there on a virtual machine — one that is not connected to your law firm network — using a properly configured VPN. Let that person click on things — not you!